Perhaps no US name is more synonymous with the financial crisis and its despised bailouts than AIG. Four years after AIG’s $180bn rescue, the US Treasury has sold the last of its stake in what Ben Bernanke once described as a hedge fund attached to a large and stable insurance company. The hedge fund has been wound down and all told the government reaped a profit of more than $20bn for its trouble. The government’s exit is an important milestone for AIG, but investors should already be focusing on the company’s core insurance business.
也许没有一家美国机构比美国国际集团(AIG)更能代表金融危机以及被人看不起的纾困。在AIG接受1800亿美元纾困4年后，美国财政部已出售该公司最后一批股份，美联储主席本•伯南克(Ben Bernanke)曾把AIG形容为附属于一家庞大而稳定的保险公司的一只对冲基金。这只对冲基金已经清盘，政府的这点麻烦总共带来逾200亿美元利润。政府的退出对AIG是一个重要的里程碑，但投资者应该已经聚焦于该公司核心的保险业务。
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